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Denver, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Information Technology Lead of a power generation company that owns and operates natural gas, wind, and solar power generation facilities.Dynamically tailored the IT service and staff support experience for the company through 400% growth over 8 years.Aligned IT priorities and focus to support the company's growth-by-acquisition business model.Completed.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Developed an IT onboarding "ITOP" technology framework, architecture and methodology to integrate newly acquired power generation assets into a standardized IT/operational technology "OT" compute platform.Developed a modernized vision and architecture and executed a technology roadmap for hybrid-cloud computing where infrastructure, application and data.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Directed the technology consolidation and integration of our 2021 merger where Southwest Generation Operating Company and Novatus Energy became Onward Energy.Partnered with the company's Operations, Asset Management and SCADA Engineering teams to develop an architecture and lead the deployment of a nation-wide, distributed technology platform enabling.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Partnered with the CEO and CFO to create a vision and technology roadmap that would support a long-term, high-growth business model through the company's acquisition and development of power generation facilities.

Denver, Colorado

• Developed and led an IT advisory consulting and managed services practice serving Colorado mid-market businesses for a global tax, audit and technology consulting firm.Built long-term technology advisory relationships.
• CIO and CISO advisory consulting services
• Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, application and data platform solutions
• Microsoft hybrid-cloud on-premises and cloud infrastructure solutions
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP platform solutions
• Microsoft 365 application, collaboration, document and data governance solutions

Centennial, CO

I took a sabbatical from IT leadership roles and immersed myself in on-site, customer-facing IT consulting and support services.Why? I wanted to understand what was most important to technology users, and how technology leaders and service providers could best support them. It was a great opportunity to get out of the C-suite and refresh my experiences as.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Established the office of the CIO and positioned IT as an agile business opportunity enabler bringing a new voice and vision to the executive management team.Instituted an effective process for the management team to.
• Customer relationship management
• Public web presence and client web portals
• Content and learning management systems
• Telephony, call center, conferencing and web-enabled event solutions
• Business intelligence and reportingDeveloped strong technology partnerships with Microsoft, Catapult Systems, RSM/McGladrey, Trace3, VMWare, NetApp, Aruba Networks, Tableau Software and Comcast to leverage the insight.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Led the company’s strategic technical direction and vision in a key leadership role on the executive management team.Directed the development of a proprietary software framework enabling payment processing services, Federal Reserve Banking transactional services, and specialized hardware integration interfaces to enable the digitalization of monetary.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Directed the company’s software development efforts. Responsible for all design, implementation, and ongoing operation of corporate IT systems and hosted server infrastructure deployed with client and partner.
• Pioneered next generation infrastructure and software architectures enabling the relatively new market concept of Internet-based payment processing, including a high-availability, high-transaction infrastructure for.
• Met the stringent data security requirements of the credit card processing industry with the architecture and implementation of a PCI DSS and PC-Card compliant infrastructure.
• Championed the online payment processing concept by developing comprehensive education strategies, presentations and training addressing security and cost concerns.
• Developed strong business relationships with early adopters to promote and build the offering’s capabilities and credibility.
• Managed more than 50 client consulting engagements, establishing market leadership in creating, deploying, and supporting fully integrated payment processing solutions.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Recruited to provide expertise and leadership in Microsoft technologies, automated servers, and desktop deployments in a major infrastructure migration of all core IT resources from Novell to a Microsoft platform for.
• Dramatically reduced manual IT operations by automating scripted configurations of user environments and IT security requirements.
• Enhanced control and budget management of Internet connectivity services as a strategic advisor to the Internet team on bandwidth and traffic priority management solutions.
• Delivered broad-ranging technical expertise across the organization for a wide array of technical projects spanning server infrastructure, imaging and mail processing automation systems, and automated deployments.

Irvine, California, United States

• Led an IT infrastructure team in the design, implementation, and management of IT servers, messaging, and security infrastructure serving staff nationwide.Maintained up-to-date knowledge of emerging technologies and.
• Positioned Mazda to leverage the benefits of the emerging technology of networked, PC-based computing environments, planning, proposing, and implementing necessary changes to existing IT standards and systems.
• Directed a major IT infrastructure migration project from legacy systems utilizing IBM OS/2, mainframe, AS/400 and Novell platforms to the Microsoft technology platform.
• Established confidence in the new, unproven Microsoft platform for networked, PC-based computing by developing expertise in the Microsoft technology and by orchestrating a comprehensive internal research, architecture.
• Enabled Mazda’s first-ever corporate Internet connection by designing a high-availability clustered firewall and proxy solution based on a Sun Microsystems and Check Point firewall and security platform.

Burlingame, California, United States

• Team lead and advisor to the executive and engineering team for the implementation of all IBM OS/2 related technologies. Subject matter expert in IBM OS/2 1.x, IBM OS/2 2.x, IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0, IBM LAN Server 3.0 and.
• Architected and lead a migration effort from a Novell Netware/IPX environment to IBM OS/2 server and IBM OS/2 and Windows 3.x/95 desktop environment.
• Recommended and implemented systems integration strategies, network topologies, server, workstation and laptop deployments, and remote LAN access solutions.
• Responsible for pre-release IBM product evaluations and testing and strategy recommendations to management.
• Supported development staff's use of IBM and Microsoft technologies for change management software products developed in-house.
• Deployed a remote connectivity solution to enable product demonstrations in the field by the sales team.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Responsible for planning, implementation and management of IBM OS/2, LAN Server, Token-Ring and Novell Netware technology solutions. Team lead and mentor to peers in IBM OS/2, Communications Manager/2 and related IBM technologies. Assisted with network monitoring, troubleshooting, problem resolution and upgrades to IBM Token Ring and various networking and.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Founded a computer consulting company focused on personal computing solutions at the birth of the personal computing era.
• Marketed, sold, implemented and supported personal computing solutions for a diverse group of over 20 companies spanning many vertical markets.
• Advocated for computers and printers, word processing, database and spreadsheet solutions over traditional business tools such as type writers, ledgers, filing cabinets and other paper intensive solutions.
• Developed and managed purchasing channels for equipment through reseller channels.
• Designed and developed DBase III Plus applications for various business functions.
• Provided assembly, testing, software configuration, hardware installation, user training and support of solutions at the customer’s site.Ahhh... The era of the IBM PC, XT and 286 clones, floppy drives and dot-matrix.

Business Management

Management Information Systems And Business Analytics

Engineering Science

Computer Engineering